Frédéric Mazella presented the story of his incredibly successful company blablacar at IdeaLab!14
After founding blablacar in 2004, Frédéric was struggling for almost 5 years to make his company grow. In 2009 his efforts were finally starting to pay off, he received 600k fundraising and managed to form a great team, including 2 co-founders.
Today, in 2014, Frederic took bla bla car to the next level: going global, starting with the biggest countries in Europe.
His company has over 175 employees, 8 offices in europe and left 500M market footprint.
Frédéric explained the core values of his company and brought them printed out on postcards, because he sees it as his mission to share them whenever he can.
There are three major take-aways, which he shared with the audience:
“Failure is not the end, it´s the beginning”
“What does MacGyver do? Think it. Build it. Use it.”
“Share more. Learn more”.
Today, in 2014, Frederic took bla bla car to the next level: going global, starting with the biggest countries in Europe.
His company has over 175 employees, 8 offices in europe and left 500M market footprint.
Frédéric explained the core values of his company and brought them printed out on postcards, because he sees it as his mission to share them whenever he can.
There are three major take-aways, which he shared with the audience:
“Failure is not the end, it´s the beginning”
“What does MacGyver do? Think it. Build it. Use it.”
“Share more. Learn more”.